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PREPARE YOURSELF for a wonderful experience.
Whatever you want out of life, this book will show you the way to
make it come to you. Be it money, influence, love, respect, or
admiration—be it any or all of these— it will be yours in abounding
measure.
This way to get rich is universal. It has brought riches to men who
work at all kinds of occupations in many parts of the world. It does
not depend on your education, your background or your luck.
It depends on the most essential, deepest-thinking part of you.
Just look around and you'll see how few men really know what they
want or where they're going. Having no goal in mind, they can't even
discern the difference between what is good for them and what is
bad.
If you too are that way—don't worry. This book is going to change
you. Start by remembering that you are better than you consciously
think you are. In fact, if you already know how you would like to
spend a lot of money, you are far ahead of most men!
Before you finish this book, you are going to know once and for all:
>>How to recognize your real goals in life—no matter what anyone
else tries to tell you.
>>How to get acquainted with your real self—your true abilities,
your vast fund of hidden talent.
>>How to fill yourself with such genuine, deep-down confidence, zest
and good-will that other people will be pleased to help you get what
you want.
>>How to find and hold the full, glorious picture of your own
success and build toward that picture with every word and deed.
As your work multiplies in worth, remember this: You possess not
only the things money can buy, but also the deep, inward
satisfaction that comes with making your life what you want it to
be. Growing rich in a way that really expresses you is just about
the most constructive, healthful, joyous thing you can do for
yourself!
THE MASTER OF YOUR SUCCESS IS YOUR CREATIVE MIND
This entire book is built around a saying in the Bible: As a man
thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Without changing the meaning of this timeless, golden truth, I give
it to you more along the lines of modern psychology: A man is what
his Creative Mind says he is.
You are not a body with a mind attached. You are a mind with a body
attached. Remember this, and you take your first step toward
self-mastery.
Actually, the mind has two levels. The one we know best is the
conscious level. It takes in impressions through your senses of
sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. It is highly effective in
making your daily thousand-and-one decisions. When you perform any
conscious act—pick up a pencil, speak to a waiter, make a phone
call—your Conscious Mind sends the orders to your body. And when you
go to sleep, your Conscious Mind goes to sleep.
The other level never sleeps. This is the Creative Mind.
Your Creative Mind literally keeps you alive. It is responsible for
the involuntary life-functions such as your heartbeat and your
breathing. It has great control over your glands, the master
regulators of your body.
Most important for our purpose: Your Creative Mind also governs your
personality, your character, your inmost drives, your deepest and
most secret desires!
W. Clement Stone conceived a powerful picture in his Creative Mind;
he saw himself controlling a large insurance company. Now, we all
know that to start a business you need capital; in fact, most
business failures are caused by lack of capital to tide-over a bad
time. Well, my friend Stone had less than $100 in his pocket. But he
has made a personal fortune of some $100,000,000... beginning as the
head of an insurance company.
How many salesmen will go out today with a good product and a good
sales pitch—and ring up no sale? It's your Conscious Mind that knows
the facts about a product and how it can benefit the user. But it's
your Creative Mind that determines whether you inspire trust or
suspicion, belief or doubt—whether you are the kind of man who is
well-liked as soon as he says Hello, or the kind who shapes up as a
negative character whom it's so easy not to do business with.
I don't mean that an image of success in your Creative Mind means
that you cannot possibly fail on any occasion. But I will show you
men who, having first failed, came back and overcame every obstacle.
They simply considered every setback a wonderful opportunity for
improvement.
It's your Creative Mind that can and will put you up there among the
happy, well-clothed, and well-supplied people; the people who
attract love, who find their way out of difficulties, and who seem
always to live in the sun.
HOW TO GROW RICH WHILE YOU SLEEP
Just as its title promises, this book shows you how to grow rich
while you sleep. You do it by communicating with your Creative Mind
while your Conscious Mind sleeps along with the rest of you!
At this time, your Creative Mind is highly receptive and the
Conscious Mind cannot interfere. Send your Creative Mind a message
while you sleep, and that message sinks in. It even can eradicate
undesirable old messages. (You can do this at other times, too, but
the best time is when you are asleep.) And, by the way, you'll sleep
soundly.
As I shall show you, the actual process of communication is very
easy. Some people take a few days to master this priceless secret. I
know of several men who did it in one night. It's a wonderful
experience to find that magic genie at your command.
What shall you tell your Creative Mind while you are sleeping?
First, I suggest you practice with the tested messages you'll find
in this book. I know by experience how powerful they are.
Very soon, however, you'll create your own messages. Mind-pictures,
really... of you driving the car you want to drive ... living in the
house you want... belonging to the clubs or social groups you've
yearned to join. And, most of all, you supplied with plenty of money
and spending it in the way that pleases you most!
Some men think they have tried and failed at this already. If you
think so, I assure you the chances are a thousand to one that you
never got through to your Creative Mind. Many a man "changes his
mind" about the way he'll handle his life—but all he changes is his
Conscious Mind.
Now you are going to change yourself right down there where you
really live. This time you'll cast out all negation, self-doubt,
self-defeat. Optimism, self-confidence, courage and wonderful new
talent will be yours—and the road to riches is straight and wide.
THE HEALTHIEST CONDITION IN THE WORLD
I was not exaggerating in the least when I said that getting rich
can be the most constructive, healthful, joyous thing you ever did.
My only warning is that you must get rich in the way that expresses
your own, best, personal achievement. Then you'll earn more than
just money.
Since some three-quarters of our illness has a mental basis, doesn't
it stand to reason that your state of mind has a tremendous effect
on you? In fact, the famous researcher Dr. John A. Schindler has
shown that one of the most positive aids to health is a cheerful,
constructive, forward-looking state of mind.
I know that many men get rich at the cost of their health— rich
enough to be able to afford the most expensive doctors.
This is not going to happen to you. The next few years, while you
build your fortune, will be your happiest years. You'll free
yourself of much inner conflict and have no psychosomatic reason to
become a "headache type" or a "bag of ulcers."
What's more, you'll rid yourself of a great deal of fatigue and get
more work done with much less effort. For what is more fatiguing
except defeat—the dreadful tiredness of continually butting your
head against a wall? The best tonic for this tiredness is doing one
job after another with sureness and success. At the end of a day
you're rarin' to go off for a well-earned session with your favorite
hobby.
YOUR DOMESTIC LIFE AND YOUR CREATIVE MIND
A worried little woman once came to me for counsel. She could not
get along with her husband. There was not enough money to clothe the
family. Her children gave her a great deal of trouble. She thought
of herself as being hopelessly doomed to a life of misery. She was
sure of just one thing—she had no time in which to study for
self-improvement.
I told her that the answers to her problems were contained in her
Creative Mind. I spent a little over an hour with her, explaining
what I explain in this book.
Six months later she came back to tell me that her married life was
now ideal, that she had plenty of fine garments in her wardrobe, and
that her children were now a joy instead of a care.
All she had done was to build firm mind-pictures of the ideal
conditions she desired. These pictures literally became part of her
Creative Mind. Yes, it also took a certain amount of "doing" in
order to make her dreams come true. But only when she believed she
could handle her situation did she set about getting things done.
Because I believe that a happy marriage is wealth beyond measure, I
devote many pages to showing you how to find this happiness through
the wonderful, natural power of your Creative Mind.
HOW DO YOU RATE YOUR SUCCESS-POWER?
In writing this book I have drawn upon a vast amount of personal
experience—and the experience of others.
Here is a favorite among all the true experiences that have been
told to me. It concerns an experiment conducted with a laborer who
could not read or write.
This man had worked with his muscles all his life. Now, in his early
sixties, he began to age rapidly. But, through a tricky calculation,
it was "proved" to him that the records were wrong and he actually
was ten years younger than he thought.
Almost at once, this man looked younger, acted and felt younger.
Where before he had complained he couldn't work the way he used to,
now he did a full day's hard labor, every day, without excessive
fatigue. There was nothing wrong with him. But he had thought in his
Creative Mind that at sixty he had to complain and slow down—just
the way all his friends did.
It has been noticed, too, that people who go blind when they are
young often will look younger, thirty years later, than sighted
people of the same age. It is said this happens because they
remember their own faces as youthful faces. They don't look for
wrinkles, they don't expect to see grey hair.
In the same way, many a man expects a mediocre performance of
himself. He gets it!
Here are a few of the commonest ways in which people down-grade
themselves:
"I'm just too shy to get along with others." Often this means that
your Creative Mind keeps on telling you that you don't like
yourself. Therefore you don't like the way you act among other
people, and would prefer to stay away from them.
But your Creative Mind can be persuaded to change its signals
completely. Soon you are going to like yourself, like other people,
and enjoy sharing their good times.
"My memory is so bad, it's always embarrassing me." Strangely
enough, your essential memory cannot be bad—because your Creative
Mind retains an impression of everything you have heard, seen, read,
felt or tasted since the day of your birth—and perhaps even an
impression of everything you have thought, as well.
So, when you "forget," you really mean you cannot bring into your
Conscious Mind something stored away in your Creative Mind. The
mind-line is blocked. Hours or days later you may smite your brow
and exclaim, "That's it!" as the mind-line suddenly opens.
Millions of people waste the greater part of their minds by
blocking-off their own memories. I will show you that an open
mind-line not only improves your memory, but also strengthens and
alerts other mental powers. It can be worth a great deal to be able
to come up promptly with names, addresses, phone numbers, prices.
Just remember—you have a perfectly good memory. We'll get together
and wake it up!
"I can't concentrate." People who are scatter-brained sometimes fear
they are mentally defective. Except in rare cases, this is not so.
More likely, your Creative Mind has learned bad habits.
You are going to see why thoughts have such power ... how every
action must begin with a thought. And you will see that you, in your
Creative Mind, decide how much power to give to a particular
thought.
First you will instruct your Creative Mind to concentrate on the
concepts you want to be the most powerful. Then your Creative Mind
will instruct your Conscious Mind to keep those concepts always in
view. You'll have no further trouble in concentrating. And it will
be effortless concentration that eliminates a lot of worry and keeps
your vital energies working together to attain your goals.
WAKE UP!—IN EVERY PART OF YOUR BEING!
You are going to be a better person in so many ways, you'll feel as
though you had been born again!
Your Creative Mind will give you a cheerful, zestful attitude toward
anything you do.
When you deal forcefully with problems and decisions, you'll grow in
poise and self-control. Things that fluster other people won't
fluster you.
Let me tell you one more story. It's about myself.
Years ago, when I first began to realize the limitless power of the
Creative Mind, I happened to need some repair work on my house. But
I found reasons for putting it off. Probably I invented reasons!
When I finally got that job done, my conscience bothered me. How, I
thought, can I instruct my Creative Mind to tell my Conscious Mind
that things must get done when they ought to be done?
The answer was absurdly simple. Now, when I have a task to perform,
I first give my Creative Mind a picture of the completed job. Doing
this while I sleep, I can wake up and feel all the pleasure I am
going to feel when I see the job accomplished. Then, when I go about
actually doing it, obstacles seem to melt away—or at the most, they
become merely details. When the job is done, I feel that good
satisfaction all over again.
Right there is the key secret of getting rich.
Today, now, decide in your Conscious Mind that you are rich. (Your
major job is completed!)
As soon as you read this book, you'll know the sure, easy way to
implant that million-dollar thought in your Creative Mind. And then
nothing, absolutely nothing can stand in your way.
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